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Welcome to the DKU Compute Cluster (DKUCC) user documentation site. You’ll find overviews, documentation, FAQs, and tips on the DKU Compute Cluster on these pages.

The DKU Compute Cluster is a general purpose high performance/high-throughput installation, and it is fitted with software used for a broad array of scientific projects. With a few notable exceptions, applications on the cluster are generally Free and Open Source Software.

Quick facts:

  • 10 nodes which combined have 916 vCPUs, 16 GPUs (Tesla A40 48GB) and 7.6TB of RAM
  • Interconnects are 10 Gbps or 40 Gbps
  • Utilizes a 400TB Isilon file system
  • Runs AlmaLinux 9.3 and SLURM is the job scheduler

The DKUCC is managed and supported by the DKU IT.

Please note that due to limited resource, all data on DKUCC will not back up, please backup your data accordingly.